OK. I haven't noticed it, but then I don't think that I've ever caused the
HP software to reacquire a preview, since color correction shows up in its
preview window. I was re-running the Acquire Preview to see the effect
of editing the gamma curve in xscanimage.
> > Also, my test slide is a fairly typical scene, albeit without any sky
> > showing. I find that the default straight gamma curve results in a very
> > dark image--to fix it with gimp's levels tool, I need to set the white
> > point to 153 (out of 255) and the gamma to about 2.50. Of course, the
> > image gets reduced to something like 5 bits of precision after that kind
> > of rough treatment. Does this mean the R032 is going to require a
> > downloaded tone map just to produce a decent image?
>
> For dark slides, increase the Exposure Time to for example 300% and
> apply a gamma of 2.2 if you have a PC monitor.
This slide isn't particularly dark, but the image I get with a gamma of
1.0 is simply unusable. A histogram shows that it has almost no
pixels with a value above about 150 (out of 255). This is with the
recommended 150% exposure. Applying a gamma and white point correction
to the scanned image does fix it up, but, as I pointed out, it leaves
an image with very many large gaps in its histogram and markedly reduced
color resolution.
Is it the right thing to do, to acquire an 8-bit/channel image with a
flat 1.0 gamma curve, then apply a gamma of 2.2 to the result?
> About tonemaps, I feel it is better to do this in software (on the
> frontend side) instead of implementing it for every backend.
> Adding some intelligence or densitometric data to the frontend will
> benefit all scanners and not just the Photosmart.
I agree there--the densitometric data should be in the frontend. My
concern is that possible the HP PS R032 can't output a usable 24-bit
image unless there is a (10x8?) tone map downloaded to it (which seems to
be happening in the VueSmart logs).
> > Last night, I tried looking at a log file produced by VueSmart. I put
> > some up at the following URLs:
>
> I don't know of any interesting SCL options that this scanner could
> still have and that's not incorporated into the newest backend
> already. What is it that you are looking for in the vuesmart logs that
> you like to have?
I just wanted to see how VueSmart was doing such a good job! So far, I
haven't managed to get a comparable image from xscanimage/hp backend. Doing
so will require either manipulation of 10-bit data in software or
downloading a (10x8?) tone map to the scanner.
By the way, what does the 10x8 notation mean? Map 10-bit data to 8-bit?
Thanks for the reply!
John
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